Trends in Soviet Theoretical Linguistics
o. Theoretical linguistics is a term not very often used in Soviet Linguistics. The terms 'structural linguistics', 'mathematical linguistics', 'applied lin guistics' (which, incidentally, has another meaning here than in other parts of the world) all ma
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FOUNDATIONS OF LANGUAGE SUPPLEMENT AR Y SERIES
Editors MORRIS HALLE, PETER HARTMANN,
MIT Konstanz
K. KUN1UNNI RA1A, BENSON MA TES, 1. F. STAAL,
Madras
Univ. of California
Univ.ofCalifornia
PIETER A. VERBURG, 10HN W. M. VERHAAR
Groningen
(Secretary), Jakarta
VOLUME 18
TRENDS IN SOVIET THEORETICAL LINGUISTICS
Edited by
F. KIEFER
D. REIDEL PUBLISHING COMPANY DORDRECHT-HOLLAND / BOSTON-U.S.A.
First printing: December 1973
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 72-95890 ISBN-13: 978-94-010-2538-6 DOl: 10.1007/978-94-010-2536-2
c-ISBN-13: 978-94-010-2536-2
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
VII
and G. G. SILNITSKY / The Typology of Morphological and Lexical Causatives
V. P. NEDYALKOV
1. A. MEL'CUK /
Towards a Linguistic
'Meaning~Text'
Model
1 33
v. s. KHRAKOVSKY / Passive Contructions. (Definition, Calculus, Typology, Meaning) 59 P. A. SOBOLEVA / H. RA TSEP /
Derivational Structure of the Russian Lexicon
On Deep Situations and Sentence Patterns
HALDUR aIM /
Presuppositions and the Ordering of Messages
77 105 123
Some Remarks on Comparative and Superlative Sentences in Estonian 135
MA TI ERELT /
E.
v. PADUCEVA / On the Logical Analysis of Russian Quantifier Adjectives 149
JU. D. APRESJAN /
Synonymy and Synonyms
173
An Attempt at the Formal Definition of Case and Gender of the Noun 201
A. GLAD KIJ /
On Models for a Syntax with Explicitly Differentiated Elements (D-Syntax) 231
YU. C. LECOMTSEY /
s.
K. SAUMJAN /
The Genotype Language and Formal Semantics
251
s. MARTEM'JANOY / Valency-Iunction-Emphasis Relations as a Language for Text Description 335
JU.
Tentative Lexicographic Definitions for a Group of Russian Words Denoting Emotions 389
L. N. IORDANSKAJA /
and A. K. ZOLKOYSKIJ / Materials for an Explanatory Combinatory Dictionary of Modern Russian 411
JU. D. APRESJAN, 1. A. MEL'CUK,
INTRODUCTION
o.
Theoretical linguistics is a term not very often used in Soviet Linguistics. The terms 'structural linguistics', 'mathematical linguistics', 'applied linguistics' (which, incidentally, has another meaning here than in other parts of the world) all may cover theoretical work in linguistics. In older days serious theoretical work was done under the heading 'machine translation'. Very often the need for a special term for theoretically oriented studies in linguistics does not even arise. Does this mean that there is no real theoretical linguistics in the Soviet Union? This would be, of course, a completely false conclusion. Some linguists tend to identify theoretical ling
